I encoded my amv as an mpeg-2 with TMPGEnc and directly from Premiere Pro (just to check to see if it was an issue with only TMPGEnc). Here's the problem I'm seeing: If I play the video from the beginning in WMP, the timecode is fine - but if I skip ahead to a certain time, it'll be off by a certain amount of seconds. For example, there's a certain part that happens at 1:53 if started regularly from the beginning and watched the entire way up to that point, but if I start the vid and skip to that point, it'll be nearly 6 seconds off and the timecode will be at 1:59 when it gets to that certain part that is supposed to happen at 1:53. I'm not seeing this when I play it in VLC Player, either, and I didn't see it last year when I encoded my previous amv in mpeg-2.

I have CCCP installed and the issue will occur with MPC. I only found out about this issue because the AMV coordinator for the anime con I submitted the AMV to emailed me a couple days ago and said that she was having trouble recognizing the full length of my entry. She was able to do another conversion of it and fix it, but it just got me wondering why it's occurring.

They are different encodes altogether, though. I was wondering if the issue was somewhere in the container's data rather than in the video stream itself, hence why trying to remux the same encode to mkv or ts or anything else that would like it would be a way to see if that's true.

mirkosp wrote:They are different encodes altogether, though. I was wondering if the issue was somewhere in the container's data rather than in the video stream itself, hence why trying to remux the same encode to mkv or ts or anything else that would like it would be a way to see if that's true.

Ah, I see. What software would I use for that? I don't believe I've ever remuxed a video before, so I'm not sure if there's any special way of doing that?

Then my assumption is that during the encode, the video and audio encoding went fine, but then something (don't know exactly what) happened with the muxing and thus some information was missing. Perhaps trying to run the encode once again would make the new file work fine?

I've done the encode multiple times with both Premiere Pro and TMPGEnc and it happens every time. I downloaded the Procoder 2 demo and gave that a shot, and it didn't give me any problems (btw, does it matter if it's a .m2p or .m2v file instead of just .mpeg in that case?).

I've also tried rendering a different video clip from Premiere Pro and there wasn't an issue either.

I'm stumped. I've exported from Premiere Pro with the same PAR, resolution, and field type - and I tried encoding in TMPGEnc with both lagarith and as an uncompressed avi. I guess it's just something with my clips or the project itself. :/